Jones, a thin-faced, blue-eyed, smiling man habitually dressed in a lumberman's jacket, had a gift for showmanship, and with his invariable question to anyone, "Are you a nut about anything?," always found someone to try out his or her ideas before an audience of "Picklers" highly skilled at heckling.
He has an invariable answer to questions about his age, the date of his graduation or the age of his daughter: "Confidential".
The Omen joke and Rodney's apparent fear of Damien became a running gag (accompanied, not, in fact, by Jerry Goldsmith's original music from the film in question, but by its invariable stand-in, the "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana").
We therefore used '?' in all cases where the character state was unknown for a species, even if it is supposedly placed deep within a taxon with an apparently invariable morphology for the trait in question.
The invariable answer of "Uh, nothing" to the question "What've you got to eat?" would be met with the sort of hostile stare you'd expect to get if you were a waitress who forgot the bread basket.
Often, the second question drivers asked, after the invariable "Where are you from?," was "How much did the plane ticket cost?" But the cab wasn't in a vacuum; it was in a country where the head of state, whose wife wore a head scarf, repeatedly urged all women to have at least three children, preferably four or five.
However, whether the published Y-chromosomal pattern of ampliconic fertility genes is invariable within P. troglodytes is an open but fundamental question pertinent to discussions of the evolutionary fate of the Y chromosome in different primate mating systems.
Though the relative gain in efficiency using multiple-choice in preference to essay questions varies according to subject, it is an invariable finding [ 49].
Each of these views, both Kant's and those he rejects, can be seen as offering competing answers the question: what is the source of our sense of an ongoing and invariable self that persists throughout all the changes in our experience?
"Like Obama!" is the invariable response.
